Doctor Awesome Visits

Here are the video files from Dr. Awesome's visit--each had its own flavor. Enjoy! Or at least, please tolerate.

The famous doctor visits the W section:


The infamous doctor visits the O section:


The fambulous doctor visits the S section:

Day 98

What crazy weather. Where is the snow? We had a two-hour delay today, so I lost the L-2 section when 1st period was dropped. The L-1 section did their pendulum lab in 35 minutes. I was very impressed. The OWS sections all covered lesson 7-5 on pascal's principle, where a force on a fluid is spread throughout the entire fluid, allowing hydraulic devices to work. We took some notes, went over homework, and had a challenge to blow up a long yellow bag before I did. My record was 7 seconds, and the fastest in the classes took 28 seconds. The trick was to use Bernoulli's principle and create low pressure in front of the bag by blowing hard but standing back. Pretty neat trick.

Dr. Awesome's video is coming soon. I realized I had the wrong cable at school today. I will work on it later tonight. I hope you all have a great weekend!

Sweet justice.

Day 95 - 97

I missed a couple of days of school. It was probably confusing to the students, because I was actually there but I didn't teach. Instead, I was getting trained to help administer the school's new website. I learned how the site software worked and now I can help update sites. You can check out the new OWLS team page there with a winking owl. See if you can get there on your own; it shouldn't be hard :)

Today three of the sections did the pendulum lab: the S, W, and O sections all did a great job figuring out which of three things could change the period (swing time) of a pendulum: weight, how far back you pull, or string length. I won't spoil the surprise for the L section tomorrow in case anyone stops by to read this.

For the L section, Dr. Awesome tried to stop by today but an intruder drill stopped him. Yuch. He'll have to stop by on Monday (tomorrow is lab day). He was just about to sing when the announcement came on. In the meantime, the students studied buoyancy and Archimedes' principle. We went over HW and took notes.

Sweet justice.

Day 94

This was Archimedes' day. We had a guest visitor, Dr. Monkeysare Awesome, who shared his popular song, "Archimedes" about the famous mathematician who discovered that the weight of the fluid displaced by an object will equal its buoyant force. The good doctor did an excellent job of sharing his insights, and for the most part the students did a good job of not heckling. As soon as I can I will post video clips of his visit.

Sweet justice!